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rionaleonhart) wrote2023-12-08 05:19 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2023-12-08 05:19 pm
It's Hard To Let It Go.
I've been introducing Tem to the Kingdom Hearts series. We've just finished the first game!
(The first game is called Kingdom Hearts, which is surprisingly intuitive for this series. The third game is called Kingdom Hearts II. Kingdom Hearts III is something like ten games in, coming after titles like Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage-, the last of which is available only in the HD collection Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue. I swear I'm not making any of these up.)
Tem's only previous experience of Kingdom Hearts was a Let's Play of the first game that xe had not finished watching.
Riona: So you're at a point where things are still relatively straightforward. There's only one of each character.
Tem: Oh, God.
It never really occurred to me before, but the fact that they kept the original film voice actors for most of the Disney characters means that Kingdom Hearts has much better voice acting than many games of the PS2 era. Although, as Tem points out, it also has the disconcerting effect that the pointless filler bits (which include a lot of Disney characters) have noticeably better acting than the serious plot scenes (which tend to focus more on characters created for Kingdom Hearts).
Tem observed that the Hundred Acre Wood didn't quite fit the tone of the overarching plot. 'You need to save your friend who's lost her heart, and your other friend has turned against you, but you need to take breaks to make sure Tigger doesn't bounce twice on a carrot.'
When Riku stabbed his ally Maleficent with his Keyblade, Tem said 'Riku!' in such a mildly scolding tone that it cracked me up. Riku! Don't stab your allies in the heart; that's so rude!
'Light,' Ansem gasped as the light from Kingdom Hearts poured over him, apparently halfway between agony and ecstasy. 'He's like you when we watched Death Note: The Musical,' Tem commented, murdering me more efficiently than the Death Note ever could.
Tem absolutely lost it laughing when Mickey Mouse turned up. He does love to pop up out of nowhere in the middle of serious plot scenes; it's hard to brace yourself for him!
I still inevitably find tears in my eyes at the end of Kingdom Hearts. I've loved this stupid series since I was fourteen years old. It's such a weird mess! The plot is nonsense! But the feelings of the characters are so achingly sincere, even when everything happening around them is absolutely incomprehensible bullshit.
What an odd game. I'm glad it exists.
(The first game is called Kingdom Hearts, which is surprisingly intuitive for this series. The third game is called Kingdom Hearts II. Kingdom Hearts III is something like ten games in, coming after titles like Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage-, the last of which is available only in the HD collection Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue. I swear I'm not making any of these up.)
Tem's only previous experience of Kingdom Hearts was a Let's Play of the first game that xe had not finished watching.
Riona: So you're at a point where things are still relatively straightforward. There's only one of each character.
Tem: Oh, God.
It never really occurred to me before, but the fact that they kept the original film voice actors for most of the Disney characters means that Kingdom Hearts has much better voice acting than many games of the PS2 era. Although, as Tem points out, it also has the disconcerting effect that the pointless filler bits (which include a lot of Disney characters) have noticeably better acting than the serious plot scenes (which tend to focus more on characters created for Kingdom Hearts).
Tem observed that the Hundred Acre Wood didn't quite fit the tone of the overarching plot. 'You need to save your friend who's lost her heart, and your other friend has turned against you, but you need to take breaks to make sure Tigger doesn't bounce twice on a carrot.'
When Riku stabbed his ally Maleficent with his Keyblade, Tem said 'Riku!' in such a mildly scolding tone that it cracked me up. Riku! Don't stab your allies in the heart; that's so rude!
'Light,' Ansem gasped as the light from Kingdom Hearts poured over him, apparently halfway between agony and ecstasy. 'He's like you when we watched Death Note: The Musical,' Tem commented, murdering me more efficiently than the Death Note ever could.
Tem absolutely lost it laughing when Mickey Mouse turned up. He does love to pop up out of nowhere in the middle of serious plot scenes; it's hard to brace yourself for him!
I still inevitably find tears in my eyes at the end of Kingdom Hearts. I've loved this stupid series since I was fourteen years old. It's such a weird mess! The plot is nonsense! But the feelings of the characters are so achingly sincere, even when everything happening around them is absolutely incomprehensible bullshit.
What an odd game. I'm glad it exists.
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